Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-31

Oddly enough II happened that the photo
grapher had hung among other pictures IN
the walls of mis- gallery one representing
the happening OF a huge and ieroci0uS
sperm whale.
Fix your eyes on some familiar object,
captain enjoinrd the artist, a. lie COW
cred his instrument with the hood.
The captains eyes paused in their roy
iny ana became fixed in rapture upon the
richly painted whaling scene; aud beloIe
the artist could Obtain u glance through
his amer lie heard Il startling crash aud
the stentogian cry OF Stern ali, and make
FAST
Looking up, the artist saw the stLuncn
old whaleman erect, with his dark eyes
ablaze. The whaling scene had proved
too realistic for him, and he had har-
poOned the painted monster with his cane.
Great Scott, how could / help it,
sputtered the old fellow, when he looked
~ though he would try ont sixty barrels
ii he would a gill;
The following anecdote illustrates our
sea captains abiding perception and love
OF the humorous. \ wholesale c.nthicr
WAS the owner Of Il beautiful silver boat
swans whistle, which the captain greatly
admired, and the merchant promised one
day to give it tn him. Again and again
this promise was reiterated, but the wins
tie cane not Time swept along, aud
" hen the season opened the captain sailed
and VAS absent III Z long voyage. But he
never for au hour forgot the pretty
" thistle. lie heard its mrlOdIOus notes
above the tempest's roar. After a three
years cruise he arrived home on a night VI
furious rain and blast. He at once came
ashore, accompanied by the ruggedrst MAJ
of his rev, and prepared to possess himself
Of that loug-prOmIsed but never presented
whistle. Aty o'clock the merchant cluthicr
way startled from his easy chair by a ter
rife knock at HIS door. He found there 4
blum, broad S]houldrTed, sealaring man
holding in chain Al ~outrageOUSly lauk and
terrible looking black dOg, whose eyes had
in them the deadly glitter ol Il lamIshrd
tiger.
Captain -- sent me for that here
bosun's whistle, explained the blunt man,
with an omiuous seuteutiOusnesS
"Oh, yes-all right" chirp"d the clio
thieT, smiling on the scaiarIng man as he
never smiled ou customer before; Il viii
bring the whistle down IN the morning ~
"He wants that there whistle how, ~
ruared the -ratariug man in II q II such IL
gives thunder to the order, Cut away the
mast. y
''Yes-yes my good man, - warblrd the
alarmed merchant. 81 understand yun
arr simply doing your duty. | won't tor
get the whistle, my line fellow, and |
won't forget You, either, when hnnS thu
whistle down
my order is, replied the st0lid sedlIr
ing man, rs he began 10 uucouplc the
chain from the dogs collar, "ei,hcr la
bring that whistle here or leave this 'rrc
dog
Hold on, my seIlaring friend shouted
the merchant, ~ he spraug over the star
railing and bounded up the Hight, 10 soon
return with the long-SOught whistle.
For weeks after the iuvial captain rolled
about among his friends with a face like a
sunli,h on 4 June morning, and often his
great Jaws shook with suppressed laughter
like a lrlly-liSh in an c~aSterly ground swell.
So lungdld these brave fellows follow the
sea that they seemed fashioned attcrit. Its
roar was in their voice, its roll III their
legs, its bTecZiurss IN their manner, and ITS
breadth and depth in all their thoughts
aud impulses. They have sailed now on
that never hcard-lrom voyage in that I'M
registered craft, even darEly seen on lilc's
horizon, whose dropping rulors bear the
one thrilling word, Death. Their
hearts, sci in giant france, were like the
shells Of the SEA they loved 50 we'll. Rough
on the exterior, they were rose-hued with
in; aud they forever sang the msubsiding
song of Love and Home.